Paul St-Pierre Plamondon refuses to consider the possibility of a third losing referendum if he takes power.
The latest Léger poll published earlier this week puts the Parti Québécois (PQ) comfortably ahead in voting intentions and even in a position to win a majority of seats in the National Assembly. However, in the same survey, support for sovereignty was only 37 per cent, with eight per cent undecided.
The poll even shows that a quarter of respondents who support the PQ would vote “no” in a referendum on sovereignty.
During a visit to the city on Thursday, where he was a guest of the Metropolitan Montreal Chamber of Commerce, the PQ leader told a press scrum that “these are encouraging figures all in all. There are a lot of undecided voters. We’re asking people to listen to us. We say to people: if you find us relevant and intelligent on most subjects, chances are we’ll be relevant on …